Bio
Anton Parsons' practice has embraced a wide range of media and modes: industrial materials, readymade objects, photography and installation. Anton's works engage physical space in profound, often unsettling ways through apparently very simple means. His works make their audience powerfully aware of the physical as much as conceptual demarcations imposed by architecture and the power that resides in social spaces. The audience is implicated in the works by virtue of having to negotiate a way around them.
Anton's new sculpture titled Passing Time was installed at Wilson Reserve two days before the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. Commissioned by the Christchurch City Council, the work will become a part of the fabric of the city of Christchurch and will be able to be walked around, walked through, touched and sat on. Other public works by Anton include Invisible City in Lambton Quay, Wellington (2003), The Longest Day, located in the Q&V Building, Queen St, Auckland (2004), and Numbers, a commission for the Palmerston North Public Sculpture Trust (2007).
Anton Parsons was born 1968 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and holds a BFA from Canterbury University, Christchurch (1990).